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make money online… with baby??

After reading that Labanon earn more than 10K selling ebook, I decide to start blogging and break the record as the youngest ever blogger in the world. Who knows, in future I can be better than him (and my dad :P).

Before that, you might be puzzled who am I. Ok, I’m Luqman and I just join blogjer about 3 months ago, and since this is my first post, please ignore any grammatical mistakes okey!

My dad quite busy (and lazy) lately. He often play and talk to me a lot lately also, thus abandon this blog and his other websites. Luckily he got me and my mom to take care of it.

See me blogging below. What do you think? Can I be the next John Chow or Darran Rowse???

Dad!! See how good I am. Using leg some more

typing

Erm, what shoud i write?? Mom, help me!!

typing 2

Ops, who call me

call

Ahh, drop my phone. Dad can you help me answer the phone call. I’m busy la

drop

Dad, I just finish typing, can you please check post it

please check

Blogging is not that easy. I’m tired, go to bed now, see you tomorrow. Babai

tired

pst: Don’t tell my dad okey. He’ll jealous when he knows that I can blogging already

April 08 round up post

Hey it’s May now, we’re almost half way through of 2008. How is your new year resolution? Have you at least achieve half of it? Batter now than too late

Thanks to all commentators this month. I won’t be able to mention you all in this post, but I guarantee that I appreciate everything posted on my comment section (except SPAM andSPLOG ). To my top 10 commentators, I got better treatment for your effort. Instead of just giving link, I’m linking to 1 interesting post from the past month. I’ll try doing this more often in future.

T-shirt Contest
The contest still on. I know some of you might not notice about it. Dekan won a t-shirt as the second top most commentator this month, since Raymond has won a t-shirt when be became top commentator on January.Dekan, please contact me for the detail ok

My top 10 commentators’s post pick
Ok, this is my top pick. Enjoy!!

You’re busy with your hectic schedule, your works, your family, your blog and etc? Raymond show you how to spare more time for yourself

Wanna switch your Google Adsense from Bahasa Indonesia to English, Dekan has few tips before you’re deciding to do so.

Asia’h Epperson wrote why most readers tend to praise and comment on any A-list blogger’s post, even when it is less useful. Why?

Azwan has finally delivered his long SAP projects. Congrats dude. You can see how busy he is with the number of posts he has this month. Plus the broken HP issue that he had at the end of April

With the latest release or Wordpress 2.5.1, you may want to upgrade your Wordpress, but afraid you’ll brake your blog, or have no idea how to do so. Bent has a wonderful tutorial of using Automatic Upgrade Plugin to upgrade your Wordpress, it is full of screen shots for your reference.

Syam show you how to hide your nuffnang ads footer and advertlets text link ads with this trick. Notes: The usage is under your own risk though

Happy 7th wedding anniversary ZakiY!!. Hope you and your family live happily ever after. It’s been a while his blog does not get updated. I’m pretty much understand how busy sometime the job can be.

This fella really a mobile blogger. He can blog anywhere, anytime. I salute you bro. Check this out, Taiping Resort, Bukit Jana. I hope to be there when I visit Taiping soon

Oh man, why you never remember ? Check out why Haney said that.

Speed up your windows XP boot up, processing with these tips from Sembang Komputer. You’ll surprise with the outcome

Overall
Not much changes on traffic and income. I’m concentrating more on link building and traffic, move this website to the new server and doing upgrade toWordpress 2.5.1. I had few articles pending which I hope to get posted by next week.

Blogjer will celebrate it first anniversary this month. I’m glad that I manage to write and maintain this blog until now, even though not as good as some of you.




MAS and MAHB, please fix your service (and crew)

When I was reading about the chaos in the US and Heathrow London airports recently, it somehow reminds me back of what had happened to me last month. I experienced a similar thing, but not this bad. Heck, I almost forgot about this (and this post that was written during the delay). I managed to speak to some of the passengers, and they’ll bring this issue further to MAS (or MHSB) management, but I’m not sure if they’d actually do that.
I decided to post it today, in case MAS has bloggers or any of them reads blogs. For me, it is enough if I can voice my dissatisfaction through blog. I love blog!! I can be reached by everyone borderless, timeless. Btw, I have no mean to tarnish MAS image, but please.. take this as a lesson to improve your service. Instead of lesson learned and forgotten (or di tong sampahkan)

Last month, I was  outstation to Penang due to some work for 3 days. There is nothing better than going back to my house and meet my lovely wife, Mai and my cute baby Luqman. Since this is my 1st outstation after becoming a father, I miss them so much. But, it turned out to be the worst domestic travel that I ever have.

Before that let me talk sweet about MAS. I feel proud with our national carrier, Malaysian Airlines System or known MAS due to its ability to turn black (profit) in only 2 years after making no profit for few years (even though some of the profit is gained by selling their building).
I admit that the cabin crew is friendly, the service is fine and the boarding is on time, most of the time. I’ve been using MAS frequently for domestic travel so far, and I have no complaint against them, except on the fare which keeps on increasing from time to time due to worldwide fuel price increase. But there is one area that MAS should be looking at.

I hate to say this, but I was really pissed off when MAS cancelled the flight without prior notice. This happened to us, passenger flightMHXXX (I forgot the number) on Wednesday for flight 6.45 PM. That’s one thing. What made thing even worst is that, we the passengers have to wait on the ‘Stand by’ counter, looking for the next flight availability, with first come first serve basis.
Unfortunately the seats are limited, and most of us have to be satisfied with 11.25PM flight. However, the issue did not stop there, our flight was delayed again to 11.50PM before we all went on board and successfully landed inKLIA at almost 1 AM. I have to spend almost MYR100 to get LIMO, whereas normally I took ERL which cost me only MYR26. Duh..

At Penang Airport, we managed to talk to their supervisor wearing yellow coat (yeah, it is yellow), we could get some compensation if we write to them.WTF, I don’t really care about money (because this flight is paid by my company, hehe), but what we’re more concern is about time and the service itself.

The bottom line is, ground crews and their services are as important as their counter part cabin crews. They are the face of Malaysia, especially when similar flight also has quite a number of foreign passengers from the middle east and Japan. This is not the best way to handle this situation. MAS should allocate enough space on the next flight, or perhaps getting a bigger flight rather than scheduling them to have flight later of the day. We, customers didn’t care what your reason is, be it flight’s technical problem or so. Don’t you have any spare airplanes?

Couple of other things that I don’t like

Ticketing service
First, they didn’t let us know about the delay. And second, I didn’t catch any announcements or messages informing the delay at the airport. Or maybe I had missed it (which I believe I didn’t), I was only informed when I reached the counter.

Long queue (and slow)
There was a long queue when I attempted to check in. I came in 1 hour and 15 minutes earlier. I’m not sure if MAS is blind or is pretending not to see the long queue on economy class. Perhaps MAS is cutting on cost, and trying to maximize their head count to get a better figure. But please, don’t you care about your customer’s experience dealing with you? Just imagine you’re on our side. How would you feel?? Happy??

Intolerant ground crew

1 thing that irritates me is, how harsh one of the ground crew is. I understand there is tense situation with every customer getting frustrated with what is going on. I took 1 incident that I witness in front of me, where 1 tourist is screaming at her, and she screamed back at her calling her ‘psycho’. I have no idea what got in her mind, but this is too much.

Customer care line
Having customer care line without no one answering the call is like providing a pipe without water.

Wireless hotspot
No free internet in airport, except TMNut TMnet Hotspot.

p/s: It’s been 1.5 months since it happens, but I only manage to complete this post by today.  Imagine how busy I’m.. LoL

when splogs steal my contents

Thanks to Google alert and Azwan for alerting me, and Google Blog search for assisting me to search the copycat, and leading me to several blogs (splog) which has copied my RSS feed (no track back) and contents whether intentionally or unintentionally. I’m not sure what they’re thinking off, perhaps they think I will never know or they’re too newbie to be aware of this, but rest assured that I won’t sit tight and keep my mouth shut.

I guess the war against copycat or plagiarism will never stop. Lorella has posted a very detailed post on what you should do when someone steals your content. It teaches you a lot about plagiarism and what is your right to protect your own content.

plagiarism
image credit to marbella-lawyers


Plugin, badge or widget will never stop this act, but at least the warning has been there at the very first place. I have experienced this issue, a couple of times before, but this is the first time I mention it in my post.

Do you know that occasionally the copycat page will have higher rank than the original page? And truthfully speaking, one of the SPLOGs, has high Alexa rank (44k), but luckily it has no pagerank. This is what I’m scared of, and before search engines started crawling this blog, it is better that I make a move.

Thanks to Online Tech tips which provided a list of useful plugins to combat plagiarism, on which I have implemented some of it. BIG thanks to fellow bloggers for the alert. This is what I call blog-sphere’s neighbourhood. I appreciate that very much!!



March 08 round up post

A must post at the beginning of each months, what happen to blogjer last month?

Top commentators
After the close race, well known blogger, Azwanhadzree announced as the Blogjer’s March top commentator with 44 comments, 1 comment more than 2nd place, Syam who coming from behind and leading the chart at 1 point, but his hope was spoiled by his own PC which hung at the very last minute. Azwan will receive the a t-shirt as a prize, and Syam, MK and Raymond Chua will received free review from Azwanhadzree.com as part of the threesome contest. Have a taste of blog who has 300-500 visitors each day. Good deal huh?

Azwanhadzree
Syam
MK
Raymond Chua
Jason Pearson
nUUr
alzack aka zaki
Knizam
Bent
SEO Lad

Stay tune Azwan, I’ll shoot an email to you very soon. And for the review, we hope to release the review as soon as possible, but I’ll talk to Azwan and Zaki prior that, so we can post the review simultaneously, since we have few blogs being one of the top commentator on all 3 blogs

Sponsor
I would like to thanks my sponsor but I don’t have any, so I’ll thanks Google and Kontera for this month’s earning. I have no success with Project Wonderful, which I have removed it after test run it for about 2 weeks. Guess how much I earn? USD1 only, which translate to 7 cents per day.It is not worth!! Perhaps I should put back Adsense on the right side bar

Nuffnang of Advertlets?
I’m thinking of displaying local ads starting next month (but I haven’t registered). Hey, which one is better? Or none?? I got to know from my reading, that both companies has habit of delaying the payment, is that true?? And the support pretty slow??

Spam Karma or Akismet?
Finally Spam Karma or SK2 works as expected, it is no longer flag legit comments as a spam. Unlike Akismet who never learn, SK2 no longer flag comments from Syam as spam. I haven’t see Aizat around, so I’m not sure if he still encounter same problem here like Syam. So as at know, I’ll stick with SK2

I also use Simple Trackback Validation plugin to filter out and eliminate spam track back. So far it works charm!!

Statistic
I stop writing/blogging for around 1 week at the midst of March due to various reasons. It damage my statistic especially Alexa, which drop almost 10k, after enjoying the increase 3 months in a row since last December. I’m pretty much concern about the my stat, since it is one thing that motivate me to blog other than $$$$. On the positive side (I don’t like this phrase), even when I’m away from my computer, I still earn $$$$, I feel good!!

I’m still hopeful blogjer.com will getting better this month. Stay tune with me..

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